How rare is rare? A literature survey of the last 45 years of paleopathological research on ancient rare diseases

30/07/2021
Read more by Julia Gresky, Juliane Dorn, BarbaraTeßman, Emmanuele Petiti. Published on International Journal of Paleopathology. June 2021

Using Y-chromosome capture enrichment to resolve haplogroup H2 shows new evidence for a two-path Neolithic expansion to Western Europe

30/07/2021
Read more by Adam B. Rohrlach, Luka Papac, Wolfgang Haak. Published on Scientific Reports. 22 July 2021

Differential diagnosis of a calcified cyst found in an 18th century female burial site at St. Nicholas Church cemetery (Libkovice, Czechia)

06/07/2021
Read more by Barbara Kwiatkowska, Agata Bisiecka, Łukasz Pawelec, Agnieszka Witek, Joanna Witan, Dariusz Nowakowski, Paweł Konczewski, et.al. Published on Plos One. 02 July 2020

A call for caution in the analysis of lipids and other small biomolecules from archaeological contexts

06/07/2021
Read more by Helen L.Whelton, Simon Hammann, Lucy J.E.Cramp, Julie Dunne, Mélanie Roffet-Salque, Richard P. Evershed. Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. August 2021

A 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer already plagued by Yersinia pestis

30/06/2021
Read more by Julian Susat, Harald Lübke, Alexander Immel, Ute Brinker, Aija Macāne, John Meadows, Britta Steer, Andreas Tholey, Ilga Zagorska, Guntis Gerhards, Ulrich Schmölcke.et.al Published on Cell Reports. 29 June 2021

Human major infections: Tuberculosis, treponematoses, leprosy—A paleopathological perspective of their evolution

30/06/2021
Read more by Maciej Henneberg , Kara Holloway-Kew, Teghan Lucas. Published on Plos One. 25 February 2021

The elusive parasite: comparing macroscopic, immunological, and genomic approaches to identifying malaria in human skeletal remains from Sayala, Egypt (third to sixth centuries AD)

25/06/2021
Read more by Alvie Loufouma Mbouaka, Michelle Gamble, Christina Wurst, Heidi Yoko Jäger, Frank Maixner, Albert Zink, Harald Noedl & Michaela Binder. Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 14 June 2021

Deep learning and taphonomy: high accuracy in the classification of cut marks made on fleshed and defleshed bones using convolutional neural networks

25/06/2021
Read more by Gabriel Cifuentes-Alcobendas & Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo. Published on Scientific Reports. 12 December 2019

Death metal: Evidence for the impact of lead poisoning on childhood health within the Roman Empire

16/06/2021
Read more by Joanna Moore, Kori Filipek, Vana Kalenderian, Rebecca Gowland, Elliott Hamilton, Jane Evans, Janet Montgomery . Published on International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 07 May 2021

The evolution of human skin pigmentation involved the interactions of genetic, environmental, and cultural variables

16/06/2021
Read more by Nina G. Jablonski. Published on Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research. 07 April 2021

Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut

05/06/2021
Read more by Marsha C. Wibowo, Zhen Yang, […]Aleksandar D. Kostic. Published on Nature. 12 May 2021

A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave

05/06/2021
Read more by Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote,  Cesare de Filippo, Viviane Slon,  Kseniya A. Kolobova,  Bence Viola, Sergey V. Markin. Published on PNAS. 30 June 2020

Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England

23/05/2021
Read more by Jenna M. Dittmar, Piers D. Mitchell, Peter M. Jones, Bram Mulder, Sarah A. Inskip, Craig Cessford, John E. Robb. Published on International Journal of Paleopathology. June 2021

Genome of Peştera Muierii skull shows high diversity and low mutational load in pre-glacial Europe

23/05/2021
Read more by Emma Svensson, Torsten Günther, Alexander Hoischen, Montserrat Hervella, Arielle R. Munters, Mihai Ioana et.al. Published on Current Biology. 18 May 2021

Early development of the Neanderthal ribcage reveals a different body shape at birth compared to modern humans

18/05/2021
Read more by Daniel García-Martínez, Markus Bastir, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Bruno Maureille, Liubov Golovanova, Vladimir Doronichev, Takeru Akazawa Published on Science Advances. 07 October 2020

Differential diagnosis of the cranial perforations on the Early Iron Age along the Ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang, China

18/05/2021
Read more by Xiaoya Zhan, Ai-Jia Mu, Liang Chen, Qun Zhang, Yong Wu, Wanglin Hu & Hui-Yuan Yeh. Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences . 28 October 2019

The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome

12/05/2021
Read more by James A. Fellows Yates, Irina M. Velsko, Franziska Aron, Cosimo Posth, Courtney A. Hofman, Rita M. Austin, Cody E. Parker. Published on PNAS. 18 May 2021

Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula

12/05/2021
Read more by Tina Saupe, Francesco Montinaro, Cinzia Scaggion, Cristian Capelli, Luca Pagani, Christiana L. Scheib Published on Current Biology. 10 May 2021

Triple sulfur-oxygen-strontium isotopes probabilistic geographic assignment of archaeological remains using a novel sulfur isoscape of western Europe

10/05/2021
Read more by Clément P. Bataille, Klervia Jaouen, Stefania Milano, Manuel Trost, Sven Steinbrenner, Éric Crubézy, Rozenn Colleter. Published on Plos One. 05 May 2021

Focus: Oxygen isotope microanalysis across incremental layers of human bone: Exploring archaeological reconstruction of short term mobility and seasonal climate change

10/05/2021
Read more by Corey M.Maggiano, Christine D.White, Richard A.Stern, J. Salvador Peralta, Fred J.Longstaffe. Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. November 2019

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